I have very scraggly facial hair - it grows very patchily above my jawline (i.e. it's mostly neckbeard) and it looks terrible, so I shave daily. I have an electric shaver with a self-cleaning dock station which was a gift from my parents. My facial hair grows in various directions which makes shaving it a pain. I have to run the shaver over it in different directions, and run my fingers ahead of the shaver to pull the stubble up so the shaver will catch and trim it.

Shaving takes me about two or three minutes each morning, right before I shower. After 24 hours I will have very noticeable rough stubble which I find unpleasant, hence shaving daily. Curiously, I've found that it seems to take pretty much at least 22 hours for it to be the right length for the shaver to be maximally effective. If I shave late one day (say 1pm) and then early the next day (say 8am) I find that it doesn't shave effectively, and I will have rough stubble again much sooner than if I'd shaved at 8am the previous day too.

I've used a safety razor a few times in the past which I found did give me a smoother shave (skin felt very smooth, instead of slightly rough like it does normally), but it took ages of faffing about with the shaving cream and washing the razor and everything and is just not nearly worth the benefit, unless I am doing something very fancy. I haven't experimented with this method much at all.